97805202587920520258797Berkeley"Lawrence Weschler's portrait of David Hockney is intimate, playful, and intellectually provocative. Beginning with an essay on Hockney's complex and ravishing photo collages, Weschler chronicles the artist's protean production and speculations: his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics and its relation to Chinese landscape painting, his gripping investigations of the possibility that the old masters deployed optical devices - cameras - in their painting, his taking up of watercolor, and then, in what may be his most sumptuously productive phase yet, his spectacular return to oil painting, about 2004, with a series of vivid landscapes of the East Yorkshire countryside of his youth. These conversations provide an astonishing record of what has been Hockney's grand endeavor, nothing less than an extended exploration of "the structure of seeing" itself."--Jacket.HockneyDavidDavid HockneyHockneyDavidDavid HockneyUniversity of California PressWeschlerLawrenceLawrence Weschler2017-09-26Artists97805202437500520243757Getty Foundation.Artists--EnglandHockneyDavidDavid Hockney1937cauTrue to life : twenty-five years of conversations with David HockneyUnknown 'gen' value: sgpInterviewA prefatory note on David Hockney and Robert Irwin -- Cameraworks : staring down a paralyzed cyclops (1983) -- A visit with David and Stanley : Hollywood Hills (1987) -- Liebestod : a final Tristan (1996) -- Wider perspectives : painting Yorkshire and Grand Canyon (1998) -- The looking glass : adventures in opticality (1999) -- Through the looking glass : further adventures (2001) -- Sometime make the time : Yorkshire watercolors (2004) -- A return to painting (2007) -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.2008Interviews212627334enGovernment publication2008212627334England.True to life.Online version: